Subj : Re: Nifty desktop compari
To   : Barry Martin
From : Ky Moffet
Date : Sat Mar 29 2025 17:29:00

BARRY MARTIN wrote:

>   >   KM> Feature comparison, really nicely done.
>   >   KM> The main event:
>   >   KM> https://eylenburg.github.io/de_comparison.htm
>   > Kind of nice they also compared to Mac and Windows.
>   KM> Yeah, that was interesting to see.
>   
> To me would be a good tool to help get a Windows user who is on the
> fence about switching OSs: like such-and-such option, these Linux
> options have it and it's called ___".  ...That might be the most
> helpful: why is a video player called 'Kaffeine'?!

LOL. Or Amarok, or Clementine, or DeaDBeeF, or any of a thousand other 
names that mean nothing. Admittedly "Banshee" does give a hint. <g>

But a lot of the major ones work in Windows too. KDE routinely builds a 
lot of projects cross-platform.

>   >   KM> https://eylenburg.github.io/old/de_comparison_2022old.htm#
>   KM> And a few items the slim version lacks, like resource use. Tho
>   KM> there will be no convincing the Xfce aficionados that
>   KM> "lightweight" Xfce uses as much or more RAM than "bloated" KDE.
>   KM> (Xfce is also not optimized for performance.)
>   
> The instructions have to go somewhere!

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